La cruz de Santiago

Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. The author explores the dark side of desires: a vital throbbing that prompts the protagonist to discover that she is more a prisoner of her passions than the master of her own life. She recognizes that desires-strange seeds that germinate secretly and inexplicably and bring about an entangled fate-have a life of their own.

HARDCOVER EDITION: This novel written in Spanish by costarrican novelist Alexander Obando offers a wide fragmented view of the universe in an impressive collage of genre fiction (sci-fi, erotica, terror, suspense) and erudite history and literary references. It has been described as David Mitchells Cloud Atlas meets Burroughs Naked Lunch and Joyces Ulyses. Literary critics purport it to be the first postmodern centralamerican novel.

Hace un año, la vida de Isabelle Drake cambió para siempre: su hijo pequeño, Mason, fue robado de la cuna una noche mientras ella y su marido dormían en la habitación de al lado. Al poco tiempo, el caso dejó de interesarle a la policía: había poca pruebas y ninguna pista. Sin embargo, Isabelle no puede descansar hasta que le devuelvan a su bebé. Excepto por alguna siesta ocasional o un pequeño desmayo en el que suele perder la noción del tiempo, no ha dormido en un año. Toda su existencia gira en torno a encontrar a su hijo, pero no puede seguir así para siempre. Con la esperanza ...

A classic title in Edna O'Brien's Country Girls Trilogy - the second volume From eccentric Joanna's boarding house, predatory Baba roams Dublin looking for men to give her a good time - and dragging with her a reluctant Cait, worrying about her figure and wanting to talk about books. Then she meets dark, long-faced Eugene Gaillard, a film director, and for a while Cait's romantic dreams seem to be fulfilled. But Eugene Gaillard is a Protestant divorcé, and when Cait's drunkard father gets to hear of it, he summons a lynch mob¿ Steering expertly between high romance, outright farce and the...